Editorial Board
Editor in Chief (2020)
Michael J. Buchmeier 
, University of California, Irvine, is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases, the Department of Medicine, and the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at the University of California, Irvine. He is also the Associate Director of the UCI Center for Virus Research. Dr. Buchmeier’s research interests are viral pathogenesis, viral immunology, emerging viruses, and biodefense. He an author of more than 180 peer-reviewed papers and review articles and co-editor of a book, Neurovirology: Viruses and the Brain, published by Academic Press. He also serves as an Editor of mBio® and PeerJ, has served as Editor in Chief of Intervirology and as an Editor of BMC Microbiology and Journal of NeuroVirology, is on the editorial boards of Journal of Virology®, Virology, and Viral Immunology, and has served on the editorial boards of PLoS Pathogens and FASEB Journal.
Editors
Stephen D. Bell (2020)
Indiana University
Research Interests: DNA replication, gene expression, chromatin, cell division, Archaea
Orna Cohen-Fix (2021)
NIH, NIDDK
Research Interests: Cell cycle regulation, nuclear architecture, yeast genetics
Corrella Detweiler (2023)
University of Colorado Boulder
Research Interest: Microbial pathogenesis
Richard J. Kuhn (2022)
Purdue University
Research Interests: Structural biology, virology
Melissa B. Lodoen (2023)
University of California, Irvine
Research Interests: Toxoplasma gondii pathogenesis, innate immunity, inflammation
Stanley Perlman (2024)
University of Iowa
Research Interests: Viral pathogenesis, coronaviruses, emerging viral infections
Gregory Stephanopoulos (2021)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Metabolic engineering, synthetic biology
Michael G. Thomas (2023)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Research Interests: Natural product biosynthesis, metabolism, metabolic engineering
Kathleen K. Treseder (2021)
University of California, Irvine
Research Interests: The role of fungi in mediating ecosystem responses to climate change
Julia A. Vorholt (2024)
ETH Zurich
Research Interests: Plant microbiomes, one-carbon metabolism, general stress response, single-cell analysis
Chairman, Journals Committee
Patrick D. Schloss
Chief Executive Officer
Stefano Bertuzzi
Director, Journals
Melissa Junior
Production Editor
Charles Brown
Assistant Production Editor
Michael E. Lerman